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From: prindle@NADC.UUCP.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: Using phone connectors on terminals
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Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 09:00:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 10 09:00:07 1987
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This practice can't be too new.  The terminal on which I am now typing (a
Direct Inc. model 800B VT132 clone) uses the same connectors and coiled cord
to connect the keyboard to the terminal as a modular phone uses to connect
it's handset to the base.  The terminal is at least 4 or 5 years old.  Never
tried (and never will!) to connect the phone and the terminal together in any
combination; one of the leads in the keyboard line is *power* for the keyboard!

Frank Prindle
Prindle@NADC.arpa